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  1. Local artists take note on NYT on Cell Phone Tower Controversy · · Score: 1

    Here in Wollongong, local artists have painted murals on all the traffic light control boxes. There was an adopt-a-box project, and people vote on the ones they like best.

  2. Ben Folds moved there on Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi · · Score: 1

    The singer?

  3. 'Enterprise' software pricing on RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle · · Score: 1

    Is normally 'how much the client can afford to pay' balanced against 'how much do i want my bonus to be for selling it to them' vs 'did we make any sales last year' as well as 'we can screw it back out of them with the service plan'

    ie: price varies.

  4. Re:Send in the Clones! on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1

    Congratulations on your entry into the TIA top 100 watch list. You're t-shirt is in the mail (All seeing eye on left breast)

  5. Re:Send in the Clones! on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1
    My best guess is that a rich guy with a few hundred million, no particular desire to live, and a slick marketing team could toss the US government in less than 24 months.


    Gold. Pure gold.
  6. Two rows, right on on Improving the Windows XP User Interface? · · Score: 1

    At home I use two rows, at work three. I often have _many_ windows open. Being able to see the name of the window I'm switching to is good

  7. Typical office on Ready or Not, Here Comes Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    No one needs inventory, asset management, or POS? Perhaps an accounting/receipting system? A lot of places have custom software that covers those functions.

  8. Re:You can spot trolling ACs... on Deploying OpenLDAP · · Score: 1

    Goblins need *urk*?
    got no uncles
    green needy ugboots

  9. Re:Great quote on Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault · · Score: 1

    He's just read about it on the internet. Hearing != seeing

  10. Re:Linus Torvalds? on Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award · · Score: 1

    I went and did that after I posted - its some kind of next gen via chip

  11. Re:Linus Torvalds? on Theo de Raadt gets 2004 FSF Award · · Score: 1

    Cool comment. What is the C7 Esther?

  12. You didn't mention blood bowl! on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 1

    For shame. The best game they released. Easily. If you can get a few friends together and start playing round robin tourney's, its a hell of a lot of fun. We used to play 5 people with two teams each, to round out league numbers.

  13. Re:Why the isp's? on Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn · · Score: 0

    But it isn't your job to determine if its child porn, its your job to report it, so when u do report it, they arrest you too for looking at it.

  14. Re:Simple solution on Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn · · Score: 1

    And then set up a cron job to your fax that runs it every hour or so

  15. Re:Posted AC to avoid karma whoring on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    Calm down, count to ten. 1 mippi-pippi, 2 mippi-pippi...

  16. Re:Instead of Removal... on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    On topic site. Funny.

  17. Re:Perfect for unpowered USB ports on Battery-Powered USB Enclosure · · Score: 1

    You can get usb cables that plug in once to the device, and twice into the ports on the pc, thereby leeching enough power from the bus to run the device.

    The one's i've seen have the standard usb logo on one end, and a lightning bolt (I assume it means power) on one of the double ends plugs.

    I think it came with a 2.5 inch enclosure.

  18. Scary on Upbeat on E-books · · Score: 1

    I think we're living the same life...

  19. REB1100 on Upbeat on E-books · · Score: 1

    I know its discontinued, but you can find them on ebay, and they rock. I love my 1100.

  20. Re:CSI on Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open · · Score: 1

    A jumper could hit the train hard enough on the way down that the lateral motion makes it jump the track, causing a car accident.

    Grissom then has determine why this guy is so much mushier than the other guy. And did he jump or was he pushed.

  21. I was thinking more... on Building A Homebrew Robotic Lawnmower? · · Score: 1

    Brain Dead for the climactic final scene...

  22. Yakitake Japan! on Scanlation: Distributed Manga · · Score: 1

    Its great fun. Typical tournament style, lets get stronger shonen stuff, but the strength lies in baking bread!

    I think my favourite is the guy who's not so good, and plagued by self-doubt - the 'hero' is a bit to perfect. Tha boss with the afro is cool, and the girl is really cute, and I feel sorry for mushroom head.

  23. Ghost in the Shell on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The article mentions Shirow under the references section! Wow. Using whats in GitS as a base, how long till it becomes thermoptic-camo, masking the ir and thermal signtaure as well?

  24. Welcome to the world of tomorrow on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1

    Besides slipping in an obligatory Futurama quote, I'm here to enlighten you. A great many universities/educational institutions are making course materials available online. This is often done as a pdf on a website - wether the site is password protected for current students only is a non-issue here.

    Why pdf? So it looks the same if the student views it on a mac, windows or linux pc. Why online? Because thats the zeitgeist! Everything should be available online!

    Why not printed? Because a universities primary occupation is not printing. (It's providing administration officers with jobs)

    A lecturer/professors job is not waiting in line at the printshop. (it's raking in the research funding and spending it on fast cars and the unibar)

    Why do the students have to print it out? They don't, they can read them on a screen. Don't have a computer? Tough luck. Get access to one quick. My university would not accept handwritten anything. They provided a plethora of labs, and access times around the clock.

    The fact that these are handwritten notes that need to pdf'd (scanned, ocr'd whatever) is the real problem. Enforce some discipline on the teaching staff, make them learn to use (office presentation tool of choice). Most of them allow saving as pdf/whatever (depedning on plugin).

  25. Different philosophy on New & Revolutionary Debugging Techniques? · · Score: 1

    If I typo with an ifdef, my compiler doesnt report what _really_ went wrong. I'm not developing for mobile platforms, so I don't need the absolute greatest efficiency - hell, thats why I'm not writing in assembler. And what about languages other than the c family, that dont support precompile directives? This is a more 'language agnostic' solution.

    Or, a little from column a, a little from column b
    ^_^